As far as I am aware, the AI only attacked Odessa once and the result was "held". I don't remember which turn that was so it'll take me a while to find the saved game for that event. I'll get back to you as soon as I find it.

As far as I am aware, the AI only attacked Odessa once and the result was "held". I don't remember which turn that was so it'll take me a while to find the saved game for that event. I'll get back to you as soon as I find it.

So um..........I watched all the Axis turns ( saved game files ) ( the AI did the turn ) from 15 to 19 and didn't find any Odessa attacks. So then I tried to just open the Soviet saved game files one at a time starting with T18. T18 said there was an Odessa attack. That's the attack we're looking for. So I watched the T17 Axis saved game file again and again there was no Odessa attack. So I'm guessing that whether or not to attack is some function with one or more random numbers in it and that the Odessa attack doesn't happen very often.

Either that or there's a bug somewhere. **************************************************************************************************** EDIT: I just now realized that I needed to post the T18 file here instead of T17 so I replaced it here and in the post below. **************************************************************************************************** Here's the T18 Axis saved game file.

Here's the Axis T18 saved game file just in case I missed it by one......which is likely. Since the attack would have occured in the same turn it's listed in the Soviet list of attacks. Sorry about the mix-up above.

Here's T18 Axis saved game:

*********************************** Edit: deleted the savedgame file to save Matrix disk space. Use the file in the post above for this or any other purpose ***********************************

ORIGINAL: AFV I assume you have been spending all of your APs for support units (building like they are going out of style). I also assume not for any infantry divisions? So what have you been building? (in general, not asking for a specific count)

So um...........as far as I can remember, I built about 20 separate tank regiments, and a similar number of sappers, mortars, hvy mortars, light rocket regiments, and MG-arty units, each. No wonder the armaments pool dried up.

ORIGINAL: AFV Larry, this is a basic question coming from an inexperienced Soviet player. I have been following this from the start and should have asked 25 turns ago but- early on, few turns, do you start assigning divisions from the Corps HQ to an Army HQ? Really, this is also open to any player who has an opinion on this.

Keep asking these salent questions. That's the only way to get an answer. I seldom have enough AP's in the early turns to get some divisions assigned from the Corps HQ to an Army HQ. Plus as RandallW says below, they usually dissappear on turn 5 or 6 or so.

Depends. If the Corps is attached directly to a Front I start assigning them to Armies ASAP. Same goes if the Corps units are spread all over the place due to routing/displacement. The idea being that you'll get a lot of routed units in the first few turns, so having a parent HQ nearby comes in handy.

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But if they are in an Army HQ and I need to move them to a Front HQ I guess the only way to do that is disband them in the Army HQ and move them from STAVKA after buying them or just buy them in the Front HQ.

Nope, you can move them, but you have to do it manually. Right-click the HQ, left-click the engineer in the SU-list on the left, and then assign a new HQ for it. Personally I never use the auto-assignments. It results in way too much chaff going to the combat HQs. Doing it manually is time-consuming and it'll cost you APs, but the end-result is worth it IMHO.

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But if they are in an Army HQ and I need to move them to a Front HQ I guess the only way to do that is disband them in the Army HQ and move them from STAVKA after buying them or just buy them in the Front HQ.

Nope, you can move them, but you have to do it manually. Right-click the HQ, left-click the engineer in the SU-list on the left, and then assign a new HQ for it. Personally I never use the auto-assignments. It results in way too much chaff going to the combat HQs. Doing it manually is time-consuming and it'll cost you APs, but the end-result is worth it IMHO.

So THAT's how you do that. Thank you for pointing that out. I had no idea. The light is coming on.

And for those of you who might be interested I've started a CG game as the Axis player for the first time with an as-yet-un-named opponent ( I haven't asked him if it's okay to post an AAR yet and I respect his privacy ) who is also trying a new side for the first time.

We're learning as we go along and so far so good as the Axis player. This is the front lines as of turn 4: ( below ). I'm posting this here because I'm fishing for whatever comments somebody might want to make.

You Sir, are in serious trouble. How serious depends on how well your opponent adapts to his new role as the Soviets.

I'm not very experienced with the Axis either, but you should be close to Mogilev at the end of Turn 2 and Pskov should've fallen by now.

Couple of things, though it's hard to spot trends from one screenie.

Concentrate your armor. Don't get reckless with them, but they have to push until the gas runs out. Flank security is the job of the infantry.

Presumably PG 1 has been busy establishing and clearing the pocket in the south, but the other 3 PGs really should be further along. And why in the name of all that is holy are you using armor in the Pripet marshes?!? Get them out of there most ricky-tick. Use the PGs to swing around Pripet and cut the rail-links instead. Yes, eventually it'll have to be scoured through to nail anyone left behind, but that's for SEC divisions or the cavalry, NOT armor.

The thing about playing the Axis in ´41 (and why I hate playing them) is that you have to PUSH. You only have 17 turns before the mud hits, and you'll never have a better chance at hurting the Red Army than now. So the advance has to be somewhere between reckless and suicidal.

Remember that wherever you are at the beginning of September is probably going to be your final defense-line come blizzard. Any gains after that probably won't have time to dig in.

Having said all that, it is perhaps also the time to point out that you're doing far better than I did on my first attempt as the Axis.

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ORIGINAL: CheerfullyInsane You Sir, are in serious trouble. How serious depends on how well your opponent adapts to his new role as the Soviets.

I'm not very experienced with the Axis either, but you should be close to Mogilev at the end of Turn 2 and Pskov should've fallen by now.

Couple of things, though it's hard to spot trends from one screenie.

Concentrate your armor. Don't get reckless with them, but they have to push until the gas runs out. Flank security is the job of the infantry.

Presumably PG 1 has been busy establishing and clearing the pocket in the south, but the other 3 PGs really should be further along. And why in the name of all that is holy are you using armor in the Pripet marshes?!? Get them out of there most ricky-tick. Use the PGs to swing around Pripet and cut the rail-links instead. Yes, eventually it'll have to be scoured through to nail anyone left behind, but that's for SEC divisions or the cavalry, NOT armor.

The thing about playing the Axis in ´41 (and why I hate playing them) is that you have to PUSH. You only have 17 turns before the mud hits, and you'll never have a better chance at hurting the Red Army than now. So the advance has to be somewhere between reckless and suicidal.

Remember that wherever you are at the beginning of September is probably going to be your final defense-line come blizzard. Any gains after that probably won't have time to dig in.

Having said all that, it is perhaps also the time to point out that you're doing far better than I did on my first attempt as the Axis.

All good ideas. Thanks for posting. I'm re-routing the tanks to a path around the north edge of the marshes instead. What was I thinking?

ORIGINAL: randallw Back to your game as Soviets, the armaments pool is still dry. I'm wondering what type of units you've ordered up, and how many of them. Running dry of armaments in 1941 looks a bit abnormal.

I'll post a listing of the units and maybe together we can figure this thing out. I'd hate to be finding a bug with the new updated version.